Price and Cost Initiatives

Replacing loans with grants, cutting tuition, guaranteeing no price increases, and more. Responding to consumer needs, private colleges are redoubling efforts to stay affordable and accessible.

Click these links to find examples of what private colleges and universities are doing to help stay affordable, improve their operating efficiency, and give families more information.

Enhancing Affordability

Campus initiatives to lower out-of-pocket costs for students and families

In addition to our full list of campus affordability examples, browse new affordability initiatives for 2008-09.

Controlling Costs

Innovative efforts by private colleges to cut their costs and operate more efficiently

Price and Cost Transparency

Better explaining to families what they can expect to pay and where their tuition dollars go

Our lists of campus initiatives demonstrates the different ways that private colleges and universities are working to make higher education affordable for students and their families. The flexibility of private colleges and universities allows them to develop new and innovative ways to open the doors to higher education.

See our news release for NAICU's perspective on this accelerating national trend.

Updated August 28, 2008